Lachesilla bernardi Badonnel, 1938

Lienhard, Charles & Mifsud, David, 2015, Psocids from Malta (Insecta: Psocodea: ‘ Psocoptera’), with new synonymy for Peripsocus stagnivagus based on the discovery of its first Palaearctic male, Zootaxa 3936 (2), pp. 251-260 : 254

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.2.5
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B03C5872-9D58-4F18-B70C-86AA42AFFA92
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6100129
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2D488796-FFC5-F32C-B4F9-FA649398F91F
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Lachesilla bernardi Badonnel, 1938
status

Treatment

Lachesilla bernardi Badonnel, 1938 View in CoL

Material examined. Malta, Għadira beach, 15. vi.1999, 1 ♂, BM; Fomm ir-Riħ, 29. x.2014, 1 ♂, beating vegetation, DM; Verdala Palace, 11.vii.–1. viii.2014, 1 ♂, Malaise trap, DM.

Notes. A new record for the Maltese Islands. This is a circum-Mediterranean species, mainly associated with dead branches of different trees and shrubs, occasionally found also on dead leaves of herbaceous plants or in leaf litter ( Lienhard 1998).